Re: Updated Fresnel Ontologies and Examples - fresnel:contentNoValue

From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefanom_at_mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 11:44:30 -0500

David Huynh wrote:
> Chris Bizer wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> yes, good idea. What do you think about having a fresnel:contentNoValue
>> property on the styleDescription class. Meaning you could say
>>
>> :knowsStyle fresnel:valueStyle [ fresnel:contentAfter ", " ;
>> fresnel:contentLast ". " ;
>> fresnel:contentNoValue
>> "This
>> guy knows nobody." ] ;
>>
>>
> It's hard for me to see how this fits in, as I'm not familiar with the
> rest of Fresnel.
>
> On a different note, the N3 code you showed seems to make some
> localization assumptions specific to English (or another similar
> language). ", " assumes a left-to-right text flow and also assumes the
> use of space (in Chinese, for example, there's no space between words).
> In Chinese, I think you can also just juxtapose several nouns to make up
> a list without having to use list separators. By the way, I would have
> named "contentAfter", "contentLast", and "contentNoValue" as
> "listSeparator", "listTerminator", and "emptyListIndicator". You might
> also try to fit " and " and ", and " in somewhere :-)
>
> A and B
> A, B, and C

oh, god. I spoke too soon.

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